Saturday, May 17, 2008

Black Moon - Enta Da Stage Samples

From Kevin Nottingham:My man, John Q from href="http://lyricstogo.blogspot.com/">Lyrics To Go, is back in thesample game! He hit me up and wanted to share this BlackMoon set that he has been working on. Big props to John Q for puttin'this one together!

Released on October 19, 1993, Enta Da Stage is the debut albumfrom Black Moon. The group consists of Buckshot, 5ft, and DJ Evil Dee(of Da Beatminerz), although Buckshot is the primaryemcee on most of the tracks. This album was also the debut productionfor Da Beatminerz's DJ Evil Dee and Mr. Walt.

Da Beatminerz laced the album with their signature basement sound,filled with hard drums, grimy horn arrangements and dark basslines. In thealbum's liner notes, DJ Evil Dee stated: "This album was done onblunted terms. Anyone who is offended by the contents of the album, FUCK YOU.Nuff said."

A few of the samples used here were later recreated by a number of hiphop artists in the '90s. The single "Buck Em Down" features a samplefrom Donald Byrd's "Wind Parade", a sample which was later re-used forOrganized Konfusion's 1994 concept track "Stray Bullet". "How ManyMC's..." features a sample from Grover Washington, Jr.'s "Hydra", which wasused for earlier hip hop tracks like EPMD's "Underground". Evil Dee andWalt take a portion of the sample and craft it into a different loop.Check all the samples below...

From John Q:Thank you. Thank You. Know you all know you can believe evrything you see out there now can you. Coming Back to reality, I want to give props for Kevin for packaging this set together. I had this set for awhile except I needed one song (hopefully someone will provide it). This set is a pretty dope listen and it is nice to see the way the Da Beatminerz flipped these samples into that grimy, fierce drum, sound that would make them stand out as one of hip-hop's top producton crew for years to come. So enjoy and I guess this is a big way to step back into the Blogging scene. So hope you digs the sample set (of course you willlllllllllllll......)

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